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* PORT HUDSON. 268 POKT JERVIS. in July, when a third assault was planned. On July hh, liovever, news of the surrender of X'icksburg to General Grant was received, and on the following day General Gardner, in com- mand of the Confederates, agreed upon terms of surrender, a Federal force taking possession, on the 9th. The Federal attacking force numbered altogether about 20,000. though its effective strength never exceeded about 13,000. Of these 707 were killed, 333U were wounded, and 319 were reported missing. The Confederate garrison numbered about 7500. of whom abovit 700 were killed or wounded, 500 were reported missing, and 6340 were surrendered. Consult .Tohnson and Buel (eds.), liattlcs and Leaders of the Civil W(tr, vol. iii. (Xew York, 1887). PORT HTJ'RON. A city and the county seat of .Saint Clair County, Jlich., 00 miles northeast of Detroit ; on Lake" Huron, at the head of the Saint Clair River, and on the Pere Marquette, the Grand Trunk Western, and the Grand Trunk railroads (Map: Michigan, L 6). It also has steamboat connection with Detroit, Chicago, Du- lutli. and other lake and river ports. The city is built on both sides of the Black River, which here flows into the Saint Clair. A railroad tunnel under the Saint Clair River connects with Sarnia, Canada ; it is more than a mile in lengtli, or, including approaches, nearly two miles, and its construction, completed in 1891, cost about .$2,- 700,000. Port Huron has acquired considerable reputation as a summer resort, owing to its min- eral water, but is of greater importance as a manufacturing, shipping, and commercial centre. There are a public library which is to occupy a new .$60,000 structure, the gift of Andrew Car- negie; the county bar library, with 10.000 vol- umes; a public hospital and home; and several public parks. The notable edifices include the Federal Government building, city hall, county court-house, and the Maccabee Temple, besides a number of business buildings. Port Huron is a port of entry and controls a large commerce with Canada. Its total foreign trade in 1901 consisted of exports valued at .$9,126,000, and imports, $2,957,000. It has ex- tensive shipbuilding interests, there being several dry docks and ship yards. Among other indus- trial establishments are railroad shops of the Grand Trunk, foundries, boiler and engine works, farm machinery works, etc. The Port Huron Engine and Thresher Company at South Port Huron has a capitalization of' .$1,000,000. Un- der a charter of 1899, the government is vested in a mayor, elected biennially, a unicameral coun- cil, and administrative boards. The school and cemeteiy boards are elected by the city council, which also confirms the mayor's nominations of members of the board of assessors and of the po- lice commission. The board of estimates is chosen by popular election. The water-works are owned and operated by the municipality. Settled about 1790 and variously called La Rivi6re Jar- vais, Desmond, and Saint .Joseph, Port Huron was organized as a village under its present name in 1849. and was chartered as a citv in 1857. Population, in 1890. 13,.543; in 1900," 19,- l.')8. PORTIA^ por'shl-a. A rich heiress in Shake- speare's Merchtrnt of Tenicc. whose marriage was to be determined by her suitors' choice of one of three caskets. Bassanio, whom she loved, made the lucky choice, and when his friend Antonio, as Ids security, fell into the clutches of Shylock, Portia. disguLsed as Balthazar, a young doctor of law, argued the ease successfully in court. PORTICI, pOr'te-che. A. town in the Province of Naples. Italy, situated on the Bay of Naples, and on the slope of Vesuvius, five miles bv rail southeast of Naples (Map: Italy, E 10)' Its environs abound in fine villas. The castle built by Charles III. in 1738 contains a school of agri- culture. The town has a gj-mnasium and a ly- ceum. The inhabitants are engaged in fisheries, and in the weaving of silk. Portici has been sev- eral times destroyed by lava, and rebuilt. Popu- lation (commune), in 1901, 14,538. PORTICO (It. portico, from Lat. portictw, porili, gallery, from porta, gate). A covered space with a roof supported by columns open on one or more sides. It is usually attached to an important building, but sometimes detached, as a shady walk. A portico is called tetrastyle, hex- astyle, octostyle, and decastyle, according as it has four, six, eight, or ten columns in front. The term is used of the space all around the eella of a Greek peripteral temple, or of that in the front and rear of a temple in antes. The similar terms porch (q.v. ) and vestibule (q.v. ) are used of less important structures of the same class. PORTION (Lat. portio, share; connected with pars, part, piirare, to prepare, Gk. ^rropov, eporon, I prepared). A share of a parent's property or estate, or that of a person standing in loco parentis, which is devised or bequeathed by will, or descends to a child, or which is given to him by the parent during the latter's lifetime, and in- tended to be a final provision for the child, in case of the parent's death. The word portion has no especial technical signification in the law to- day, exce])t where juoperty is given to children by way of advancement, as a marriage portion, by which the parent anticipates the probable amount the child would receive in case of the parent's death. See Advanceme.nt; Descent; Iniieki- TAXCE; Will. PORT JACKSON SHARK. One of the small cestraeiont sharks of Australian and South Pacific seas, of which the principal species ( Cestracion Fhilippi) is common about the southern shores of Aus- tralia, and takes its name from one of the harbors. The egg is very curious, con- sisting of a conoid leathery case, around which is woimd spirally a broad flange, and two horny tendrils serve to attach it to some supjiort. See Ce.straciont ; and Col- ored Plate of Fishes of THE PnTLiPPiNES. accompany- ing article Philippine Isl- ands. PORT JER'VIS. A village in Orange County, N. Y.. 88 miles northwest of Xew Y'ork City: on the Erie and the New Y'ork, Ontario and West- ern railroads (Map: New York. F 4). It is pic- turesquely situated at the confluence of the Dela- ware and Neversink rivers, and at the jimction of the boundary lines of New York, New .Jersey, and Pennsylvania. A popular summer resort. EGG-CASE OF A CE8- TRACIONT .SHABK.